Airplane Kites – How to Make a Kite By W. A. Reich

How to Make a Kite - After building a number of kites from a recent description in Amateur Mechanics I branched out and constructed the aero plane kite...
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How to Make a Kite - After building a number of kites from a recent description in Amateur Mechanics I branched out and constructed the aero plane kite...

The material required for the making of a war kite is three pine sticks, each 60 in. long, one stick 54 in. long, one stick 18 in. long, all 1/2 in. square; 4 yd. of cambric; a box of tacks;…

Box-kites may be purchased ready-made in a number of sizes, but they are not cheap, and it will pay any boy to take the time necessary to make one...

How to Make a Malay Kite – The Malay tailless kite is probably the most practical kind ever invented. It will fly in a wind that the tail variety could not withstand, and it will fly in a breeze too…

A Tailless Kite – The frame of a 3-ft. kite is made of two sticks, each 3 ft. long. These are tied together so that the cross stick will be at a distance of 15 percent of the full length…

How to Make and Fly a Chinese Kite – The Chinese boy is not satisfied with simply holding the end of a kite string and running up and down the block or field trying to raise a heavy paper kite with…

A simple method of constructing a box kite is given in detail as follows:The sticks should be made of straight-grained wood, which may be either spruce, basswood or white pine.